washington, washington, six foot eight, weighs a fucking ton...

[myurbandream]

uh-oh.

so you know how i'm making a quilt? and i have a square design using a 7x7 grid of 13" tiles, which ends up being 91"x91"? and when i bought material i planned on having a 91"x91" unfinished dimension to work with?

well, my quilt is decidedly NOT 91"x91". it's more like 7'11" (95") on the vertical, instead of 7'7" like it's supposed to be. and it's about 95" on the horizontal, too. which means i have an extra four inches of material to cover in each direction. i probably didn't sew my seams wide enough.

aaaaaand my bolt of fabric is only about 39"-40" wide, instead of the 43"-ish i was planning on.

damnit.

SO!! let's see if i need to go back to the fabric store or not.

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ETA: oh yeah, i'm boned.

so it turns out that the green fabric is narrower than the brown. i do have about a 44" width on the brown; it's just the green that's 39". so, doing the math, i need another 48" length of my green to finish out the back of the quilt - i'm going to err on the side of caution and get a full yard and a half. and i'm a little short on the brown as well - i'll need another 24" or so of that - so i'm gonna pick up another yard there as well.

in other weirdness, i supposedly got 200" of both colors of fabric, and supposedly cut two 95" strips off of each of them. but somehow i ended up with 7" extra of green, and 14" extra of brown. in pure math, i should have had 10" of each. i have no vaping clue what happened there.

so... back to the store with me. *headdesk*

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ETA: how to tie a quilt - http://www.quiltbug.com/Articles/tying-a-quilt.htm

Comments

[pronker]

It's still square though, so not too much tweaking to do. If it had gotten off the square, ickypoo.

[jen-chan13.livejournal.com]

trufax - that would have been a nightmare!!! as it is, there's some slight difference at the corners, but it's generally still a square. thank god for small mercies, i suppose.

also, your icon is badass. as is mace windu. :D

[pronker]

Eeee, Mace is smokin'!!

It'll be worth it, and the fabric, being fabric, stretches weirdly sometimes. I hadn't thought of using LJ in this fashion, but look how much trouble it saved you to plan all ahead; just talking things through like this worked fantastically.

[jen-chan13.livejournal.com]

it's been great! and years and years from now, when lj is totally out of style, i can look back at these entries and think to myself how inexperienced i was, and remember all the mistakes i made, and experience again the agony of my first sewing project....

presuming i ever do something like this again!

[catc10.livejournal.com]

One would assume that your *first* sewing project was one of your cosplay costumes...Tsunade, specifically.
ME

[jen-chan13.livejournal.com]

eh, i guess that's true... after all, i did learn the basics of a sewig machine from working on cosplay. ah, good times.

the difference here, i guess, is that i'm the one doing all the math and all the individual bits. tsunade and them were more of a group effort, remember.

[catc10.livejournal.com]

Ah, a *my* project and not an *our* project?
ME

[catc10.livejournal.com]

Oh god, poor Jen-chan!
ME